gps app

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Mon Jun 30 20:23:17 CEST 2008


On Monday 30 June 2008, Brad Midgley wrote:
> Tilman
>
> > Tangogps downloads tiles (images!) from the internet to show maps. And
> > tangogps uses gpsd, which is supposed to become obsolete...
>
> why is gpsd supposed to become obsolete?

Obsolete may not be the right word, but the Openmoko Framework [1] is going to 
use Gypsy [2] for multiplexing GPS. Its dbus interface fits nicely within the 
framework, and it claims to have battery life advantages over gpsd.

I don't suppose it would be too hard to add a Gypsy support to tangogps.

1 - http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenmokoFramework
2 - http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/wiki/




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